Characteristics of cursor trajectories controlled by the computer mouse

Ergonomics

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 527-536

  Phillips, James G ^a   Triggs, Thomas J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer mouse; Cursor; Kinematics; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

COMPUTER SCREEN CURSOR TRAJECTORIES;

ERGONOMICS;

ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER TERMINAL; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGINEERING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINETICS; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITION EFFECT; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TRAUMATOLOGY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0035871075     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130121560     Document Type: Article

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